Toilet-fixture



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TOILET FIXTURE.

(Application filed Dec. 28. 1897A (No Model.)

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' By iuls fletorny UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

THOMAS E. BENNETT, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

TOILET-FIXTU RE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,231, dated November 1, 1898.

Application filed December 28,1897. Serial No. 663,873. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS E. BENNETT, a citizen of the United States, residing in New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toilet-Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in toilet-fixtures; and it has for its main object the provision of a combination toilet-fixture for sustaining soap, towels, sponges, &c., on a suitable support, such as a wall of a bathroom, the construction of the parts being such that all of the several members thereof can be adjusted to i any desired positions and turned up against the Wall out of the Way when not in use.

One of the principal features of the invention is the employment, in connection with a suitable support, such as a bracket secured to the wall and having a swinging arm, of a dished vessel or receptacle pivotally carried by the swinging arm of the bracket and so constructed as to have a plurality of compartments, which may be formed by a soap-holder filling such vessel transversely of the latter and of such size as to leave a space or compartment at one or both sides thereof. In the preferred construction this pivoted receptacle will be an open-work basket of any approved type and material suitable for the purpose, the soap-holder being ordinarily a solid dish-shaped vessel. The other compartment or compartments of the holder may receive a sponge, a wash-rag, or both. In mounting this dished holder on the swinging arm of the bracket I prefer to make use of a connecting device which will detachably support the former, and hence there is illustrated herein a swiveled supporting-bail pivoted on the swinging arm of the bracket and having the usual hooks or holding members for engaging the wire holder. It will be apparent that in such a construction as this all of the parts may be assembled and disassembled without employing extraneous fastening devices to hold them in place and that when the several members are taken apart they may be readily cleaned before reassembling. In connection with this improved combination-holder, which forms one of the most essential features of the toilet-fixture,

I make use of a towel-rack, which will also be carried by a swinging arm of the bracket.

Ordinarily the combination-holder will be supported by the outer one of a pair of members forming the two sections of the swinging arm of the bracket, these two sections being hinged together to move in a horizontal plane and the inner one supporting directly the towel-rack, in order to permit adjustment of the dished holder toward and from the towelrack, the several members of the latter usually having, of course, independent adjustments of their own.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved toilet-fix ture operatively supported on a wall or other suitable fixed member. Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse sectional detail of the dished holder and a portion of its supporting-arm, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail plan of the swivel supporting-bail for the dished holder and the support for said bail.

Similar characters designate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

As before stated, my improved toilet-fixture will usually be secured to the wall of a bath-room, and hence I have illustrated at 2 a bracket of any suitable type fixed on a wall in the ordinary manner. From this'bracket will extend a swinging arm, which in this case will be made up of a pair of hinged sections, such as 3 and 3, of any usual type, the parts being connected with each other and one of them to the main member 2 of the bracket in such a manner that the swinging bracket-arm will move only in a substantially horizontal plane. Obviously the construction of these bracket members is unimportant, so long as the parts are capable of operation in the manner described. To one of these sections of the bracket-arm, preferably to the section 3', will be pivoted the combinationholder hereinbefore described. The connection between these parts will be made by means of a swivel-joint in this instance, and the swivel may be of any suitable construction. In the drawings of this application I have illustrated a swivel t, pivoted to the arm 3 and held in place by means of a screw 5, this swivel being in the nature of a bail formed from flat sheet metal and having a pair of oppositely-disposed resilient arms terminating in the usual hooks 4, which hooks may receive the lower side wires 6 (3 of the bottom of the holder. This holder will ordinarily be dished and preferably will be an open-work wire receptacle or basket, (indicated by H.) Said holder may be divided into a plurality of compartments by means of asuitable soapdish, such as S, which may be of any desired shape and material, so long as spaces are left at the ends of the open-work basket, as indicated in Fig. 1, for the reception of a sponge, a wash-rag, or other similar toilet article or articles. The spaces or compartments for these articles are indicated by 7 and 7.

IVhen the soap-dish is disposed centrally of the holder H, the weight upon the bracketarm 3 will of course be practically evenly distributed. The open-work compartments at opposite sides of the soap-dish will obviously permit the water to drain out from the sponge and the wash-rag, and hence the holder II should be positioned, usually, either over a bath-tub, washbowl, or similar vessel.

The towel-rack which I employ in connection with the parts heretofore described may be substantially of the type indicated by T. This towel-rack embodies a support or standard 10, which rises from and is secured to the bracket-arm 3, and has thereon in this instance a pair of swinging arms 12 12, adjustable independently relatively to each other both in a vertical and horizontal direction. For the purpose of supporting these arms at any suitable points in the length of the standard 10 I may make use of a pair of stops, such as the stop-sprin gs 13 13, which may be caused to grip the standard 10, and thus sustain the swinging arms.

My improved combination toilet-fixture constitutes a very simple and convenient device for bringing a soap-dish and a towel-rack into position for use at any desired point within limits with respect to a washbowl or bath-tub, and as all of the parts are pivotally connected in such a manner that when not in use every member of the fixture may be swung up against the wall out of the way it will be apparent that it will take up but very little space and will not constitute an obstruction.

Having described my invention, I claim- In a toilet-fixture, the combination, with a wall-bracket having a swinging arm embodyinga pair of hinge-sections movable in a horizontal plane, of an open-work basket pivotally connected with one of said sections, and a removable imperforate soap-holder situated in said basket substantially centrally between its ends to form a series of compartments in which objects may be placed to drain.

THOMAS E. BENNETT.

Vitnesses:

WILLIAM E. WINTER, II. R. SEDGwIcK. 

